Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

I can see a pair of breasts in that painting [if I look through my magnifying glass]

EDIT - and a beastie

not sure what that is in the bottom left-hand corner

[Anna]

No idea, totally lost, is it something to do with Bend it like Beckham - Benda?
I'm off now to dish up bangers, mash and pak choi!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Beasts?
Booze?
Bottom?

[Flay]

From my angle (and trying to ignore the boobies) I wondered about Brodsky....? He premiered the Tchaik VC. Wiki says:

Eduard Hanslick called it "long and pretentious" and said that it "brought us face to face with the revolting thought that music can exist which stinks to the ear". Hanslick also wrote that "the violin was not played but beaten black and blue", as well as labelling the last movement "odorously Russian".

Mind you I can't fit this with any other clues, nor the painting.

[Flay]

I wondered about Brodsky....?

Elgar's String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83 was dedicated to the original Brodsky quartet*

* Edit: no - it was the 2nd (Manchester) quartet that he had formed

[Quarky]

From my angle (and trying to ignore the boobies) I wondered about Brodsky....? He premiered the Tchaik VC. Wiki says:

Mind you I can't fit this with any other clues, nor the painting.

Well Guys (including the feminine), this B seems to have sunk, and is proving a disaster! However Flay has quoted the phrase I had in mind, which contains the magic word!

As regards the painting, you have unaccountably overlooked the background, which is coloured B...?

The approximate clue is from the field of Jazz, which no doubt accounts for the difficulties.

In regard to the Composer, I would be quite happy with an American composer instead of a British composer, who is coincidentally featured on COTW this week.

Oh well, write this one off to experience - should have stuck to Greek myths!

[hedgehog]

Well..... no actually I had thought of the blue(s) - if that is what it was What was putting me off was "modern" and "new".

But it has been very entertaining Oddball!

[Quarky]

Thanks Hedgehog. Yes the blues clue:
"Modal jazz is jazz that uses musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework. Originating in the late 1950s and 1960s, modal jazz is epitomized by Miles Davis's Kind of Blue (1959), ......... Though the term comes from the use of the pitches of particular modes (or scales) in the creation of solos, modal jazz compositions or accompaniments may ....."

I must write out 50 times "must put more thought into setting clues"!

[Flay]

I must write out 50 times "must put more thought into setting clues"!

Please don't be disheartened, Oddball. It isn't easy setting clues, especially as many of the good ideas have already been used. Sometimes we try to be too obscure - clues were set and solved much more quickly a year or so ago. Please bounce back and bowl us many more googlies in the future.

From your conundrum I have discovered more about Hanslick, learnt about the formation of the Brodsky Quartets (3 of them), learnt that Elgar only wrote one string quartet which was dedicated to Brodsky, and seen some boobies!

And as Hedgehog said:

but it has been very entertaining Oddball!

And that's what AA is about!

[mercia]

yes I find question-setting virtually impossible which is why I chicken-out so often

I certainly know a lot more about Hanslick and the Tchaik. vc now which is all to the good

[Flay]

Shall I set a C?

It happens in Prague, but not in the Underworld. Sir Simon did when by rights he shouldn't have.

[Nick Armstrong]

I can see a pair of breasts in that painting [if I look through my magnifying glass]

And that is the mental image I shall be carrying away from the AA events of a day I have largely spent at the steering wheel...

*nudge nudge*

[mercia]

*nudge nudge*

Are you selling something ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3_UCm1A5I

[hedgehog]

Shall I set a C?

Sir Simon did when by rights he shouldn't have.

Conduct? Quite right, he should have been an insurance salesman.

I doubt though, that such blasphemy is allowed here.......the Underworld, immediately brings to mind Offenbach's work. The can-can was danced there, so that's out, what about the cha-cha? Rattle conducting one from West Side story, but why shouldn't he have? OMG he didn't try to dance one did he?

Sorry, just being wildly silly, got a serious day coming up.

[Flay]

Conduct? Quite right, he should have been an insurance salesman.

I doubt though, that such blasphemy is allowed here.......the Underworld, immediately brings to mind Offenbach's work. The can-can was danced there, so that's out, what about the cha-cha? Rattle conducting one from West Side story, but why shouldn't he have? OMG he didn't try to dance one did he?

Sorry, just being wildly silly, got a serious day coming up.

Not so wild or silly. Yes it does refer to conducting in a way.... And the reference could be to the Offenbach, but I did say not in the Underworld....